The Jail Blazers Finally Tell The REAL Story | Rasheed, Damon & Bonzi
All The Smoke
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of Netflix’s Untold: Jail Blazers (premiering April 14), Rasheed Wallace, Damon Stoudamire, and Bonzi Wells join All The Smoke Unplugged to finally tell their side of one of the most misunderstood eras in NBA history.
They revisit the loaded Trail Blazers rosters that nearly broke through, the heartbreak of coming up short against the Lakers and Spurs, Damon’s unforgettable first practice in Portland, brutal first-team vs. second-team battles, Scottie Pippen’s arrival, Arvydas Sabonis stories, locker room culture, and why those teams believed they should have won a championship.
From the origins of the “Jail Blazers” label to the media narratives that followed those Portland teams for years, the guys reflect on how that era was framed, what the public never heard, and why this documentary matters now.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome back, All the Smoke Unplugged, ahead of the Netflix untold jailblazer documentary |
| 0:11.1 | with drops April 14th. |
| 0:14.0 | Man, I wanted to welcome with my brothers, Rishie Wallace, Damon Stadermeier, and Bonzie Wells. |
| 0:19.2 | Fellas, what's happening, man? |
| 0:21.7 | M.B., what's going on, baby? |
| 0:23.6 | Rubbed in Birdman hands. Let's get to it. |
| 0:26.6 | What do? What do? |
| 0:28.2 | Man, I can't call it, man. I got a chance to check the dock out yesterday. |
| 0:32.0 | And I love this type of shit because this is what I was watching trying to come into the league. |
| 0:38.0 | This is high school for me, college for me, and being able to see, I think the biggest thing |
| 0:44.9 | I took for me was the misconception of what the jailblazers were because I think this happened |
| 0:51.0 | in a time where you guys didn't have voices. Now, if this should have happened now, |
| 0:54.7 | y'all could have hopped on your own show, somebody else's show, hopped on your phone and cleared |
| 0:58.6 | your name immediately. But this happened in a time where it was the paper or it was one of these |
| 1:03.9 | major sports outlets and it was never our side of the story. It was always their side of the story. |
| 1:08.8 | So first and foremost, what did you guys, |
| 1:11.8 | how did this project come together? Well, I speak on it real fast. We appreciate you having us on. |
| 1:18.6 | But yeah, for me, this was something that I really wanted to do. Even when we got into the podcast |
| 1:24.5 | and space, I always wanted to talk about our story and people needed to hear the real. And even when you see the doc, you're going to know, she's story, Damon story, even my story and how it was nothing. And I've always, even when I was in the moment, I was like when stuff was happening, I was like, man, this is nothing. What the? And I really wanted |
| 1:44.9 | us to have a voice. And then, you know, going on through life these last few, you know, years or whatever, |
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